Example sentences of "even before [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for home calls , we refuse over the phone even before we 're asked — before we can hear the mother 's panic , the baby 's cries . |
| 2 | Even before we are born the shape and pattern of wrinkles on the surface of the two hemispheres of the brain differ to an appreciable extent ( see figure ) -some of the most noticeable asymmetries being found in the regions of cerebral cortex associated with language . |
| 3 | Antinomians taught that since Christ died for the actual sins of His people , they are justified even before they are born . |
| 4 | It is now believed that babies can be sensitized to food even before they are born , because a few food molecules , from food the mother eats , can reach the baby in her womb ( see p 246 ) . |
| 5 | LEFT Puppies start playing with each other even before they are weaned . |
| 6 | According to Vasily Kazakov , who led the study , the youngest children affected were contaminated in 1986 even before they were born , when their thyroid glands were already sufficiently developed to absorb radioactive iodine . |
| 7 | In fact , the potential need to revise the 1987 regulations was identified even before they were published , as a result of the Bank Accounts Directive ( 86/635/EEC ) which , in spite of its name , applies to all forms of credit institutions , including building societies . |
| 8 | If he wisely orders his men to occupy a certain hill it does not follow that they had reason to occupy that hill even before they were ordered to do so . |
| 9 | Since restrictive practices legislation was first introduced , almost 5000 agreements have been registered , the vast majority of which were abandoned even before they were taken to the Court . |
| 10 | Even before she was finished speaking he was walking quickly from her towards the house . |
| 11 | COUNCIL TAX is the son of Poll Tax and even before it is levied is growing up as monstrous as its father . |
| 12 | This may be given by reference to time elapsing after the date of issue of the document , and it is quite possible for the time-limit to be passed before the document can be served or even before it is received by the Central Authority . |
| 13 | In a sense , the competition is judged even before it is judged . |
| 14 | Both take some following , and the Cobra in particular will probably never be repeated — not even with the Viper , which seems to be losing its fangs even before it 's born . |
| 15 | Even before it was given the food , the dog began to produce saliva in response to the appetizing smell . |
| 16 | The train eased into the station and he got to his feet , heading for the door , pressing the ‘ D O O R O P E N ’ button even before it was illuminated . |
| 17 | Adenauer gave the Schuman Plan his blessing even before it was announced . |
| 18 | Developments the other side of the globe meant that the B-70 was becoming obsolete even before it was built . |
| 19 | EVEN BEFORE IT was declared redundant in 1977 , All Souls looked a lost cause . |
| 20 | Darwinism , social or otherwise , was not merely science but ideology , even before it was formulated as such . |
| 21 | The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design . |
| 22 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |
| 23 | However , there seems no doubt that slavery as a mode of exploitation was on the decline in Latin America , even before it was abolished , and that the economic case against this form of labour appeared increasingly strong after 1850 . |
| 24 | Even before it was dissolved the TBC had effectively become an arm of the Government under the Ministry of Information and Tourism , and the Minister was clearly determined to impose controls . |
| 25 | Imagine working with plant that was obsolete even before it was installed in the 1940s . |
| 26 | They begin even before he is born . |
| 27 | But personal growth is also shown here as the character of Pip begins to change even before he was given the money and it continues to change after all the money is gone . |
| 28 | But Stewart said that even before he was convicted , vital information from other pilots about near-misses was already drying up because of fears of reprisals . |
| 29 | The novelty and importance of his work were appreciated even before he was awarded the Ph.D . |
| 30 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |